window-bar

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A bar of wood or iron for securing a window or the shutters of it when closed.

n. A horizontal bar fitted in a window or doorway, to prevent a child from falling through.

n. plural Latticework, as on a woman's stomacher.

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Examples

Coquart, who was putting away the papers of this wretched case, told me that a very handsome woman had taken the Conciergerie by storm, wanting to save Lucien, whom she was quite crazy about, and that she fainted away on seeing him hanging by his necktie to the window-bar of his room.

The fact is that as long as the eye is turned to the bright window-pane a more intensive blood-activity occurs in the portions of the eye's background met by the light than in those where the dark window-bar throws its shadow on the retina.

When he stepped out, the bath was over; he never returned for a second dip, but passed at once to a favorite corner of the window-bar, and stood there a most disconsolate-looking object, shivering with cold, with plumage completely disheveled, but making not the least effort to dry his feathers for several minutes.